Never Promised A Rose Garden

[Rose is a rose is a rose].

A rose is a rose is a rose?

This young man presented initially and repeatedly over a period of twenty years with symptoms of irritability, depressed and withdrawn mood, impulsivity, out-of-control behavior, and suicidal ideation and behavior. These symptoms occurred with disabling intensity at ages 3 year, 6 1/2 years, and 8 1/2 years, when he had not yet been adequately diagnosed and treated with appropriate psychopharma...

Endoscopic vein harvesting: just a promised land?

Lopes et al1 recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine the results of a comparative study between open and endoscopic vein harvesting (EVH) in coronary artery bypass surgery. This study did not pass unnoticed. An impressive record of 1000 patients per arm, 1800 angiographies at 12 to 18 months, and a clinical 3-year follow-up were analyzed. Surprisingly, the results of the 4000 ...

A "rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," but exactly what is a gastric adenocarcinoma?

In the 14 July 1997, issue of Lancet, Schlemper et al. [1] reported a study in which four Japanese and four Western pathologists (from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Finland) compared their diagnoses of gastric biopsy and resection specimens having epithelial lesions ranging from reactive, through preneoplastic, to invasive carcinoma. These pathologists independently classified microsc...

The promised land.

have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey… Exodus 3:7-8 (KJV) F or 4 years of surgical residency I had the same locke...